Welcome to Gilead ...

Gilead is located in Montgomery County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Gilead, you might consider that their post office opened in 1893.

Time Zone: Gilead lies in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time

Area Code for Gilead: 859

Communities Also Named Gilead ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 11 communities that are also named Gilead - they are located in Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, Missouri, Nebraska, North Carolina and Ohio.

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Gilead.

Adding Gilead to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Gilead in the GNIS. For more information, see the Referenced GNIS Codes section on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Gilead was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>

From that list, the Gilead post office opened in 1893.

We also found Gilead on a map titled George#&160;F. Cram Map (1905).

For more details, see References and Mentions for Gilead.

Footnotes ...

<1>	If you're interested in how the shape of Kentucky's counties, including Montgomery, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>	A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/